Thierry Henry has opened up on his time at Barcelona with a revealing anecdote about how he once riled Xavi with his comments about the club.
The incident came when he had just arrived at Barcelona and wasn’t really fully integrated into life with the Catalan giants.
Here’s what he had to say:
> “When I joined Barcelona, I was upset as I was the new one on the block - people are having a go at you more than the guy that won before, which I understand but it does wind you up,” he said on the [Stick to Football](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFR07iPUnZM&list=PLfikCHtGjo4l2AJbpkgkmFOxgIQBc9Pn2)
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> “I always remember, I was with Samuel Eto’o, we’re going up the stairs at the Camp Nou, and I’m looking at the Més que un club. I’m talking to Samuel Eto’o, and I said ‘Més que un club? Come on man’. Xavi was behind me, and I didn’t see he was behind me. He goes ‘Oi – what did you say?’ He said, ‘Don’t talk about my club like this, you’ve never won anything here. Shut up, work, and when you win something one day, you can talk about it.’
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> “I looked at him at that moment, he was well within his rights for me to understand what it was – because I didn’t know what it was. Now I know what it is, because I lost there, I won there, I understood what the club meant and what it means.
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> “This is why the club is what the club is, because Xavi passed it onto me at that moment. I didn’t say anything back, and it’s not like me to not have the last word, but I looked at him and said sorry.
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> “With Barcelona, they will all hammer you with what the club is. Anyone who went to La Masia, anyone who won there, they will talk about to you, they will pass it on, because they believe in it, because they have a duty, they have a way of playing, you like it, or you don’t.
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> “They are proud of what they do, and proud of the club – but it’s nice to have people around the club like that.”
Henry also spoke about his decision to leave Arsenal and join Barcelona, saying “I needed a new challenge. I wanted to get out of my comfort zone. At Barcelona, I had to relearn how to play, adapt to a new system, and prove myself all over again.”